Bringing fish home to eat in hot weather
Bringing fish home to eat in hot weather
What do people do to keep a salmon or brown "fresh" after catching one during the heat (like this year) of summer? Ice in a livewell? Or? Do you gut or bleed a fish after catch? Tia.
Tom
"Tyee, Too"
18' Lund
"Tyee, Too"
18' Lund
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Re: Bringing fish home to eat in hot weather
I toss them in the live well and blead them
Out before they die and put them in a large garbage bag on ice. Fish goes from live to cold within 5 min.
I have to bring my yeti in summer to fit the fish, but it works great!!
My boat has a fish box for icing fish in the floor, but I use that for BBQ supplies
Out before they die and put them in a large garbage bag on ice. Fish goes from live to cold within 5 min.
I have to bring my yeti in summer to fit the fish, but it works great!!
My boat has a fish box for icing fish in the floor, but I use that for BBQ supplies
Matt B
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Re: Bringing fish home to eat in hot weather
Tom, I fill Gatorade bottles with water and freeze them. I keep 12 or so in the freezer, and reuse them for livewell cooling and keeping fish fresh in a cooler after bleeding and gutting them. A wet towel over the bottles prevents the fish from getting beat up in the cooler.
I'm one of the apparently rare people who likes eating ~4-7# lake trout, and bleeding is really important with them. I stun them and then cut the gill plates to bleed and gut them on the boat.
Andy
I'm one of the apparently rare people who likes eating ~4-7# lake trout, and bleeding is really important with them. I stun them and then cut the gill plates to bleed and gut them on the boat.
Andy